- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Professor
- College of Nursing
- Phone: 401.874.5337
- Email: masutherland@uri.edu
Biography
Dr. Melissa Sutherland is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a nurse researcher whose work has been funded by private foundations and by NINR, NICHD and AHRQ. Her current R01 project, funded by AHRQ, examines female college students’ experiences with intimate partner violence and sexual violence, and factors associated with violence screening in college health centers. Her interpersonal violence work has identified provider, organizational and institutional factors that influence intimate partner and sexual violence screening among college women.
Her work extends beyond the U.S. by contributing to the nursing profession and knowledge development in South American countries. As a Fulbright Fellow in Chile (spring 2017), she supported the development of a family nurse practitioner program (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile [PUC]) and launched a sustainable mentoring program to increase research capacity. While there, she co-taught a course on global public health, collaborated on research with PUC faculty, and mentored PUC faculty in the process of research publishing.
Melissa is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and has taught community and public health at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Research
Interpersonal violence, sexually transmitted infections, health behaviors and health promotion.
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
MSN, Community Health and Nurse Practitioner Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
BSN, Binghamton University
BS, Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Selected Publications
Jiang, L., Sutherland, M.A., Hutchinson, M.K., & Si, B. (early view 2021, June 11). A multi-center structural equation modeling approach to investigate interpersonal violence screening for public health promotion. Frontiers in Public Health. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.637222. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.637222/abstract
Sutherland, M.A., Fantasia, H.C. Hutchinson, M.K., Sing, B., & Jiang, L. (2020). Are we asking? Nurse practitioners’ interpersonal violence screening practices. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 16(9), 683-688. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2020.07.023
Hutchinson, M.K., & Sutherland, M.A. (2019). Conducting surveys with multidisciplinary health care providers: Current challenges and creative approaches to sampling, recruitment, and data collection. Research in Nursing and Health, 42(6), 458-466. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.21976
Sutherland, M.A., & Hutchinson, M.K. (2019). Organizational influences on the intimate partner violence and sexual violence screening practices of college health care providers. Research in Nursing and Health, 42(4), 284-295. doi: 10.1002/nur.21950
Reynolds, C., Palacios, I., & Sutherland, M.A. (2019). Exploring the use of technology for sexual health risk-reduction among Ecuadorean adolescents. Annals of Global Health, 85(1), 1-10. doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.35
Sutherland, M.A. and Hutchinson, M.K. (2018). Intimate partner and sexual violence screening practices among college health care providers. Applied Nursing Research, 39, 217-219. doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2017.11.031
Sutherland, M.A., Fantasia, H.C., Hutchinson, M.K., & Katz, J. (Early view Nov 2017). Individual and institutional predictors of IPV/SV in college health centers. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(3-4), 1330-1355. doi: 10.1177/0886260517741211
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0242-2536